Example sentences of "[indef pn] [verb] down [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the organizer calls ‘ submarines ’ everyone lies down with a leg in the air . |
| 2 | ‘ Even scum have to have someone to look down on . ’ |
| 3 | In picking Snow as anchor , ITN bosses replaced a Tory royalist with someone sent down from university ‘ following political disturbances ’ ; and , equally boldly , they chose to skip a generation . |
| 4 | The next task is to cut the hide to a more manageable size , and I assumed that the straps would be cut out at this stage , so looked around for someone sitting down with a steel rule and a knife . |
| 5 | Someone leaned down in front of me with his cupped palms outstretched . |
| 6 | and one boy chose to write about plumbing and do you know , he found that there was nothing written down about plumbing in the early nineteen seventies there were one or two plumbing text books , they were very expensive and you could only get them through The Institute of Plumbers plumbing is something that until about nineteen seventy five was passed from father to son or uncle to nephew it was a sort of secret craft you know , you can |
| 7 | It was rather pathetic sometimes because he was upset at somebody going down on a discipline charge and getting the sack . |
| 8 | Somebody stepped down from the street and peered through the glass door but seeing Wycliffe went away again . |
| 9 | ‘ No more risque sketches and you 're to get everything toned down in the second half . ’ |
| 10 | Ron One sits down beside us . |
| 11 | Your council can also choose to extend these periods of time or set new classes of property other than the one laid down by the Government . |
| 12 | Then she noticed something fluttering down below her . |
| 13 | I wan na go down town this afternoon , but I 've got no one to go down with , I do n't want to go by myself |
| 14 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 15 | From this vantage point , one looks down into the well which houses the external restaurants and bars , with the Opera House dominating the upper frame of the picture in the background . |
| 16 | Something moved down by her feet . |
| 17 | Theda no longer knew whether Benedict 's possible plight — for still no word had come from Aycliffe — or her own present one bore down on her nerves the most . |
| 18 | I must confess when this one dropped down at him and he chested it out it 's a lovely little bit of link up play by Jochim again . |
| 19 | Said everything came down to sex , did n't he ? ’ |
| 20 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 21 | something written down on paper . |
| 22 | Something roared down in the swamp . |
| 23 | Thousands of different kinds of rocks have been described and separately named , but when one gets down to their chemistry , one finds that they all have a great deal in common . |
| 24 | And of course er when an article became , when you needed an article or something broke down in the car and you needed to m=make something up on the lathe o it was made on the premises . |
| 25 | The big one looked down at me as if I 'd just crawled out from under . |
| 26 | From the terrace of the house , grimed with soot and wind , one looked down into a grey , fogged landscape of endless slate-roofed ‘ back-to-backers ’ and soaring mills throbbing with trundling looms , glittering with acres of lighted windows ( dark in the black-out after 3.30 in the afternoon ) , and huge chimneys trailing and belching smoke endlessly into the curdled air , which loitered out over the spoiled valleys until , eventually , it was dispersed across the distant moors . |
| 27 | The Polish one went down like a battleship , the bow sliding gracefully under and the stern lifting until the stern paddler was up to his waist in water , whence it slowly rolled over . |
| 28 | This one went down in the afternoon . |
| 29 | Prepare the cross-spar to the length indicated ( about 60mm longer than the spine ) and you will soon see why it is generally called a ‘ spreader ’ , as you stick first one end down with more strong tape , then have to curve it , in order to fit it within the kite shape at the other end and onto the final corner . |
| 30 | Everything fell down around me . |